East African Business Week

Kampala, Uganda-The latest ranking has placed Makerere University at the top in the sub-Saharan region. The ranking that was based on six indicators including the number of articles published, results from the search engine, Google scholar, number of citations, cumulative impact of journals, quality of research and collaboration with other universities globally.
Makerere which came eighth in the overall ranking on the continent was failed to making it to he top by South African and Egyptian institutions.
The ranking by the Informatics Institute of the Middle East technical university in turkey shows that a total of 2500 universities were surveyed globally. According to the rankings, no other university in Uganda apart from Makerere made it to the top ten.
The university's vice chancellor Prof Venancious Baryamureeba attributed the improvement to the quality standards set in the ongoing reforms.
Cape Town is top followed by Witwatersrand, Stellen Borsch, Pretoria and Kwazulu Natal all from South African and Nigeria's Ibadan taking the 10th position.
Students of the university are delighted by the great improvement in the standards after a long struggle to improve quality.
"The ranking of the 8th position will help refute claims among the public that the university's standards declined," said Shamim Nassuna, a third year journalism and communication student at the university. Nassuna said that some parents had decided to take their children to other universities claiming a drop in standards.